So , looking for a movie to watch and found this one.. impressed by the high IMDb rating , I started reading the reviews; which were glowing !! So I spent the $5 and rented it - bad mistake. The acting is great. It's found footage and that's always annoying , the story takes about a half hour for anything to happen.. just rather boring and irritating character development. One of the 3 main characters is just awful. Text book annoying guy. This just wasn't a good movie. 75% of it is mild and totally uninteresting "scares" , they even throw in a very typical jump scare , which to me is so lame. The last 15 minutes are the "climax" and it's just more shaky cameras and - this is like something my brother would have made with his friends in high school. Very low tech. Screaming , camera cutting out and blood squirting out of mouths. I am easily scared and not hard to please. But this movie, for me was awful. Just not good at all. So I wanted to save everyone else from this ... if you like found footage , there is better out there. In fact a great film that is independent and free on Netflix and similar topic wise is "The Shrine". Another good one is "The Bay" another one is "Exists" all of these found footage and all better than this.

I was looking for a found footage film to watch that would let me regain my respect for directors who are practitioners of the art.This was pretty good in terms of cinematography. The footage wasn't artificially jiggly or fuzzy or thrown around like a basketball. In fact at times it wasn't obvious at all. Usually there's some device to let you know where you are watching from, like a counter or CAM1 etc. But most shots were pretty clear and the POV swapped between the characters in an understandable way.The most effective tension mechanism was the villagers. Dour, sullen and uncommunicative. This could have been used more effectively and should have been ramped up progressively.The ending in the caves is horrifying. I was an underground miner so I'm not claustrophobic. But the way they get stuck is... - I'll say no more. Good ending. Wish I had watched it in the dark.

I am like a lot of movie lovers these days, I have had my fill of found footage flicks. Once in awhile one comes along that doesn't make me want to break my TV. This movie had enough coverage with all of the cameras, the story was intriguing and the actors did a very nice job selling their characters. If you want a movie with a ton of jump scares then go elsewhere. If you want a buildup to a great, unexpected ending, then stick around. Yes, the ending of this movie was completely unexpected. I am so glad that I didn't read any reviews or comments about this movie before I watched. I just went on blind faith and I was treated to a great movie. I am a fan of the genre of movie that has to do with the idea of hell or demons or what other place there is in the afterlife. Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, Limbo, whatever. This movie had enough of the in the dark creep factor to keep me on the edge of my seat and the ending just capped it off like a nice Grand Marnier.

Film-makers can't really win with stories of this sort. The plot moves along, the characters do their thing, and then tension gradually increases. But, in the end, we either have to be shown the monster (or whatever), or we don't. Either way, we go away disappointed. If we see the monster, then our reaction is (to paraphrase Stephen King) "Ugh! It's a 30-foot bug. But at least it's not a 300-foot bug!" If we don't see the monster, we're left wondering what on earth it was all about.Sometimes not showing us the monster can work; for example, the story might be cleverly ambiguous about whether there really is a monster at all. In this movie, however, we know there is a monster. And that makes the ending particularly lazy and inept because, if the film-makers aren't going to show us the monster whose existence has been increasingly strongly hinted at, the film has to offer us something else. But it doesn't -- it's just curtains down, at no particular point.Still, credit where it's due. The small cast of characters is convincingly written and portrayed well. The scenery/environment is engaging and atmospheric, and the church where a lot of the action takes place is creepy, but not unbelievably so. In fact, I enjoyed the movie right up until the last twenty minutes or so, when it became heart-sinkingly clear that there wasn't going to be any plot resolution.I don't mind a movie that leaves me wondering what happens next. What irks me is a movie in which it's patently obvious that even the writer had no idea what happens next, and probably didn't much care. On the whole, I'd rather have seen a 30-foot bug.